List of Famous people who died in 1961

Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s.

John Harper Trumbull was an American politician who served as the 70th Governor of Connecticut.

Violet Mary Clifton was an English writer, and a descendant of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, the illegitimate son of king Charles II and Nell Gwyn.

Wallis Hensman Clark was a stage and film actor.

Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov was a Colonel General and military commander in the Soviet Union.

Beppo Levi was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books, not only on mathematics, but also on physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim, known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was also a noted theater actor.

Erich Kamke was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.